English and drama ba (hons)

Structure

You can complete your English and Drama degree in three or four years. If you choose to do a year abroad this will take place in Year 3 and Year 3 modules will instead be studied in Year 4.

• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3

Year 1

Your first year includes a combination of practice-based and seminar-based modules:

• London/Culture/Performance
• Power Plays
• Beyond Acting
• Reading, Theory and Interpretation: Approaches to the Study of English Literature
• Shakespeare
• English in Practice

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Choose two modules across three subject areas

1. Medieval and Early Modern Studies

• Arthurian Literature from Geoffrey of Monmouth to Game of Thrones
• Renaissance Literary Culture

2. Eighteenth-Century, Romanticism, and Nineteenth-Century Studies

• Representing London: Writing the Eighteenth-Century City
• Romantics and Revolutionaries
• Victorian Fictions

3. Modern, Contemporary and Postcolonial Studies

• Modernism
• Postcolonial and Global Literatures
• The Long Contemporary

You select the rest of your English modules from a range of options that changes each year.

• Art Histories: an Introduction to the Visual Arts in London
• Black and Asian Writing in Britain
• Chaucer: Telling Medieval Tales
• James Baldwin and American Civil Rights
• Satire, Scandal and Society
• The Crisis of Culture: Literature and Politics 1918–1948
• Women and their Writing in the Romantic Period
• Writing Now

You select Drama modules from a combination of seminar and practice-based options.

• Culture, Power and Performance
• Group Practical Project

Practice-based:

• Action Design
• Adaptations
• Approaches to Applied Performance
• Making Contemporary Theatre
• Performing Personae
• Performing Shakespeare

Seminar-based:

• Acting Theory
• Costume Dramas
• Dance Theatre
• Illness and Disability in Performance
• London Performance Now
• Naturalism
• Places of Performance
• Race and Racism in Performance
• The Senses in Performance
• Theatre for the People
• Voice, Gender and Performance

Take a look at our full English module directory and Drama module directory for more options.

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 3 Choose one from

• English Research Dissertation
• Practice-based Research Project
• Written Research Project

• Livelihoods
• Livelihoods in English

You choose the rest of your final-year modules from a wide range of seminar and practice-based options that changes each year.

• British Fictions of the 1960s
• Ghosts and Laughing Gas: Literature in the 1790s
• Guillotines
• James Joyce's Ulysses
• Reading William Blake
• Shakespeare: the Play, the Word and the Book
• Writing Muslims
• Applied Performance
• Culture, Performance and Globalisation
• Performance and Community
• Performance Composition
• Shakespeare after Shakespeare
• Verbatim, Testimonial, Tribunal
• Writing About the Arts

Take a look at our full English module directory and Drama module directory for more options.

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Study options

Apply for this degree with any of the following options. Take care to use the correct UCAS code - it may not be possible to change your selection later.

Year abroad

Go global and study abroad as part of your degree – apply for our English and Drama BA with a Year Abroad. Queen Mary has links with universities in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia (partnerships vary for each degree programme).

Find out more about study abroad opportunities at Queen Mary and what the progression requirements are.

Additional Costs

A few modules may require you to buy books and tickets to performances or exhibitions, and travel within London. Tickets are free in your first year and, where possible, offered at a discounted rate in subsequent years.